Appropriate "Safety" Colleges for an MIT Applicant?

ducktape
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:12:31 +0000

As an EA admit, I also applied and was accepted to Notre Dame, UChicago, and UMich (in-state) early. On the actually topic of this thread, which sort of went down the drain with the Mudd discussion, UChicago seems to be a really popular match/reach school for MIT applicants (this year, at least) and I’ll give a vote to Case Western as a pretty good safety as well.

I’m not going to go back in the thread and see if this has already been said, but to all you juniors: apply early to a rolling decisions school, because it’s darn nice to have an acceptance in your hands within a week or two of pressing submit to MIT or whatever other school you apply to early. It was definitely a nice ego booster.